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After graduating from the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore during 1982, Prof Qureshi joined the provincial Livestock Department as Veterinary Officer and was involved in semen processing, quality monitoring, farm management, veterinary research and planning. During 2005, Prof Qureshi joined the University of Agriculture, Peshawar as full professor and was raised to the status of Dean, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences. Since then, has been involved in teaching Animal Reproduction and Livestock Management subjects to the graduate and postgraduate students. He facilitated the establishment of the Livestock Trainers and Consultants, an NGO of young animal scientists. The scientist has successfully completed five research and development projects funded by the provincial and federal government.
Prof Qureshi has supervised 3 PhD and 22 M Phil research scholars as major supervisor and 4 and 43 as minor. He has got a good number of scientific publication comprising; 44 in impact factor journals, 22 HEC recognized, 13 books and 2 book chapters, in addition to 100+ popular articles on the internet engines, electronic and printed press. He has been working as executive member/HEC representative at Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council and member of 24 professional bodies. He is also assisting 17 journals as member editorial boards or reviewer. Livestock Management Department, headed by Prof Qureshi, got recognized by the Natl Agric Edu Accred Council of Pakistan and two postgraduate programs were launched in Theriogenology and Pathology. He introduced the business incubation concept in the thesis research. Prof. Qureshi has been contributing as Dairy Expert in the Pak-Australia Dairy project. He has been working as Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia since 2010 and will continue up to 2017.
Prof Qureshi organized the International Workshop on Dairy Science Park -2011, Nov 221-23, as Chief Organizer with the cooperation of various agencies attended by 450+ delegates, with 103 technical papers and exhibition by 10 business companies. The abstracts and recommendations have been published in a proceedings book and full length papers were published in an impact factor Journal. The Second workshop was held in 2013, Nov 18-20, focusing on developing enterprising capacity of livestock and poultry farmers of Pak-Afghan Region for meat production. The Conference was attended by 500+ members. The Higher Education Commission was the main sponsor supplemented by other sister agencies and private companies. Papers were presented by during 9 sessions by speakers from various parts of the country, 6 faculty members for Kabul and Nangarhar University Afghanistan and Dr Mithat Direk from Selcuk University, Turkey. 200 abstracts were published in the proceeding book with ISSN number. The third workshop has been scheduled for November 16-18, 2015 with focus on graduate entrepreneurship.
Prof Qureshi has prepared a road map for implementation of the Dairy Science Park through a working team for developing the livestock and poultry meat production setup in the province into an export base for Halal Food Market. The plan is aimed at enabling the outgoing graduates in establishing their own entrepreneurs, sharing the public sectors responsibility of employment generation, food quality and food security. The provincial Agriculture Minister has inaugurated Livestock Business Incubation under the DSP and the Local Government Minister has allocated Rs.200 millions for improving the slaughter houses. Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has advised legal reforms to support commercialization of the livestock and poultry sectors. Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Livestock has endorsed the Park. The United States Department of State’s Biosecurity Engagement Program has offered establishment of a Center of Excellence on Biorisk Management under the Park. DSP Display Center has been established at Deans Trade Center, Peshawar Saddar for linking the farming sector with experts, service providers, self employed graduates and marketing agents.
The Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sardar Mehtab Khan Abbasi has placed the Dairy Science Park on his official page http://fatada.gov.pk/about-us/governers-profile/. Efforts are underway to seek resources for establishing a Quality Control Laboratory Complex, a Business Incubation Center and a Halal Research Center at the University, backed up by field units in collaboration with the relevant organizations.
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